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Conversations with Authors: Trump and the Shifting Meaning of “Conservative”: Using Activists’ Pairwise Comparisons to Measure Politicians’ Perceived Ideologies
A question that keeps me up at a night is: “What is ideology? How do we measure it?” I remember Dan had this idea and said, “Well it’s easier to ask people to do a pairwise comparison than something more complicated—couldn’t we do that?”
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Conversations with Authors: Historical Border Changes, State Building, and Contemporary Trust in Europe
One thing this paper addresses is that there is work on contemporary and long-term effects of boundaries, focused on how individual behavior is shaped by boundaries. What’s missing from this growing literature is much evidence of how this actually works.
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Navigating an R&R
On a first invitation to revise and resubmit, you will have at least three reviews and a letter from us that may suggest how to work with the reviews or provide you with additional advice. But how do you work through this advice, particularly when it is contradictory or advice that you disagree with? And what should you include in the detailed memo we request that you include with your resubmission?
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Anchor Management: A Field Experiment to Encourage Families to Meet Critical Program Deadlines
In early 2017, only half of Washington, DC families receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) successfully recertified their eligibility and maintained their benefits.…
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Government Policy Performance and Central-Local Political Trust in China
Government policy performance is an important source of political trust. When governments perform well, the public is inclined to have high levels of trust toward them.…
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Publishing Your Qualitative Manuscript in the APSR
One of our editorial team’s most important objectives is to increase the substantive, methodological and representational diversity of the journal. When we became editors, we pledged to broaden the range of research topics published in the journal.…
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What Makes a Good APSR Article?
Our editorial team created this blog as part of our effort to increase the transparency about the journal. The blog is a place to explain policies and procedures and to communicate the norms and expectations that guide our work at the journal.…
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Are populists sore losers?
Donald Trump still claims the election he lost was unfair and rigged. Other populist leaders have equally proven to be sore losers in the contexts of elections and referendums.…
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Conversations with Authors: The Politics of the Mundane
In this Conversation with Authors, we spoke with Dr. Roberto Carlos about his recent APSR article, “The Politics of the Mundane.”…
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Conversations with Authors: Institutionalized Police Brutality
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
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APSR Editorial Report – Fall 2020
Prior to the beginning of our tenure, we set out a vision statement for the APSR revolving around six principles. One of these principles is editorial transparency, specifically as it refers to sharing with our community information about our editorial workflow and characteristics of our authors, reviewers, and readership during our tenure.…
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In a roundtable for New Perspectives on Turkey, five scholars discuss the global political economic consequences of the pandemic
It has been nine months since the “normal” has been disrupted with the emergence of a novel coronavirus and while we continue to be in the clasp of the COVID-19 pandemic the “new normal” has not ossified yet.…
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Europeanization on Demand: The EU Cybersecurity Certification Regime Between Market Integration and Core State Powers [1997-2019]
The digital sphere is consistently expanding, and now encompasses more than half of the world’s population with eight billion digital devices (Kemp, 2019).…
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Policy and the Dimensionality of Congressional Roll Call Voting
In a recent opinion piece on Bloomberg.com, Peter Orszag, former director of the Office of Management and Budget during the Obama Administration, suggested that the Covid-19 pandemic would be an unprecedented Political Science experiment that would test whether the threat of the virus could overcome the polarisation of American political parties.…
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Reparations as Reconstruction, Not as Alibi
In this post Lawrie Balfour expands on her 2003 American Political Science Review article ‘Unreconstructed Democracy: W.E.B. DuBois and the Case for Reparations‘.…
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Administrative Records Mask Racially Biased Policing
In this post Dean Knox, Will Lowe, and Jonathan Mummolo expand upon their APSR article ‘Administrative Records Mask Racially Biased Policing‘ which was recently published online.…
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Where does implementation lie? Assessing the determinants of delegation and discretion in post-Maastricht European Union
“I would like to be free, as a man is free. Like a man who needs to wander with his fantasies and who finds this space only in his democracy, that has the right to vote and spends his life delegating and in receiving commands has found his new freedom” (Giorgio Gaber, “la Libertà”, 1973) Delegation is a very common act in our everyday life: We delegate tasks to our colleagues in the workplace.…
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Social sustainability in food production? Recent developments in labour standards in the meat-processing industries in UK and Germany
The overexploitation and pollution of natural resources and accelerating climate change are among the greatest challenges of the present. Against this backdrop, industries are more and more prone to taking sustainability aspects into account.…
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2020 John McMenemy Prize Nominees Paul Thomas and JP Lewis
Interview with 2020 John McMenemy Prize Nominees Paul Thomas and JP Lewis; “Executive Creep in Canadian Provincial Legislatures”. Please give us a nutshell summary of your nominated article, “Executive Creep in Canadian Provincial Legislatures”.…
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2020 John McMenemy Prize Nominee Eric Helleiner
Interview with 2020 John McMenemy Prize Nominee Eric Helleiner; “Conservative Economic Nationalism and the National Policy: Rae, Buchanan and Early Canadian Protectionist Thought.”…
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2020 John McMenemy Prize Nominees Luc Turgeon, Antoine Bilodeau, Stephen E. White and Ailsa Henderson
Interview with 2020 John McMenemy Prize Nominees Luc Turgeon, Antoine Bilodeau, Stephen E. White and Ailsa Henderson; “A Tale of Two Liberalisms?…
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A new era for the American Political Science Review
We are honored to officially start our editorship of the American Political Science Review. We do so with great excitement, but also with some solemnity.…
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The regional politics of austerity after the Great Recession: What lessons can we learn from Italy and Spain?
The world is currently facing the most serious health crisis in more than a century. While virtually all countries have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, there is some variation in the spread of the virus and the extent to which it has disrupted societies and economies.…
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Relationality: A Richly Different Lens for Analyzing Policy
Policy is often depicted as prescription –a set of rules by which services and functions are carried out in the public sphere.…
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The strings of the ‘golden straightjacket’: How sovereign credit ratings constrain democratic choice in developing and developed countries
In the past three decades, credit rating agencies have been in the limelight on more than one occasion, and not in a good way.…
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Does gambling belong in the category of morality policy?
Morality policies involve a controversial question of first principles or core values. Does gambling belong to this category of policies?
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Unequal benefits – diverging attitudes: How an equal expansion of childcare attenuates backlash against egalitarian gender norms
After decades of value change towards more egalitarian gender norms across most Western societies, the trend has now slowed, and even reversed in some countries.…
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How Policy Packaging can increase public support for costly policies
Around the world, policy-makers are confronted with various challenges originating from climate change, urbanisation, population growth, as well as technological and economic change.…
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Managing International Crises Together?
If we look at the world around us, attempts by states to somehow and at certain moments manage international crises together abound.…
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It Could Happen to You: How Perceptions of Personal Risk Shape Support for Social Welfare Policy in the American States
Social welfare policies are among the most salient and potentially controversial policies today. In virtually all western democracies, public support for the social safety net has changed significantly over time.…
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2019 John McMenemy Prize Nominees: Cheryl N. Collier and Tracey Raney
Interview with 2019 John McMenemy Prize Nominees Cheryl N. Collier and Tracey Raney; “Canada’s Member-to-Member Code of Conduct on Sexual Harassment in the House of Commons: Progress or Regress?”…
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2019 John McMenemy Prize Nominee: Melanee Thomas
Interview with 2019 John McMenemy Prize Nominee Melanee Thomas; “In Crisis or Decline? Selecting Women to Lead Provincial Parties in Government.”…
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2019 John McMenemy Prize Nominee: Matt Wilder
Interview with 2019 John McMenemy Prize Nominee Matt Wilder; “Debating Basic Income: Distributive Justice and the Normative-Technical Nexus.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 51 (2).…
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As Governance Evolves, So Should Our Tools for Studying It
Decision making in highly contentious public policy domains can become mired in political conflict, leaving important policy problems unaddressed. To remedy this, public agencies across levels of government are experimenting with non-traditional governance approaches that emphasize conflict reduction and negotiation among diverse stakeholders.…
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Business and Politics: A novel approach to studying international business alliances
We presented a novel approach to studying international business alliances by initiating a new conversation in an interdisciplinary context: political science, international relations and management.…
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2018 John McMenemy Prize Nominee: Benoît Morissette
Dans le cadre du dix-huitième concours annuel pour la remise du Prix John-McMenemy, la Revue canadienne de science politique a interviewé les auteurs des articles en lice.…
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2018 John McMenemy Prize Nominee: Francesca Scala and Stephanie Paterson
For the eighteenth annual competition of the John McMenemy Prize, the Canadian Journal of Political Science interviewed the short-listed nominees about their articles.…
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2018 John McMenemy Prize Nominee: Karen Bridget Murray
For the eighteenth annual competition of the John McMenemy Prize, the Canadian Journal of Political Science interviewed the short-listed nominees about their articles.…
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North Korean Resources at the Journal of East Asian Studies
With North Korea in the news, we would like to call attention to the range of research the Journal of East Asian Studies has published on the country.…
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A New Team for the Journal of Experimental Political Science
I am delighted to announce a new editorial team for JEPS, which will hit the ground running after APSA. We will have seven associate editors and a senior associate editor.…
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Dealing with rejection: Advice from an editor
It happens to all academic researchers, all of the time. We have to deal with rejection – our papers get rejected for publication by journals.…
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Q&A on the use of Google Consumer Surveys for social science research, with Lie Philip Santoso, Robert Stein, and Randy Stevenson
There’s a great deal of discussion these days about survey and polling methodology. A series of close and surprising elections, worldwide, have led many to wonder about the state of polling and survey methodology — Brexit, the Colombian peace referendum, and the 2016 U.S.…
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Privacy and Power in the Trump Era
For several years transatlantic relations have been dogged by very different perspectives on privacy and intelligence-gathering held by many on the opposite sides of the Atlantic.
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70 Years of International Organization
For seventy years, International Organization (IO) has been at the forefront of scholarship in international relations. Across those years, the journal has tried to reflect the pressing questions of the field.…
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Repost: Why we need better central bank accountability
Repost from the Ethics & International Affairs Blog Written by Jacqueline Best, June 16, 2016 Photo: US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen at a press conference in December, 2015.…
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Cambridge Archive Editions Online
Cambridge Archive Editions is a unique collection of collated diplomatic papers copied from the international archives at Kew in London. We are delighted to announce, it is now available as an online collection.…
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Populists and Progressives, Capitalism and Democracy
The July issue of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (13.3) features the forum, “Populists and Progressives, Capitalism and Democracy”.…
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Mapping the Changing Role of China’s People’s Congress: Pork-Barrel Politics in China?
In this blog from The China Quarterly Editorial Team, we preview a new article from political scientist Melanie Manion, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which challenges the current conventional wisdom that China’s people’s congresses are largely honorific bodies with little policy impact.…
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Climate adaptation for Political Scientists? The New York Times sees the risk
A recent article from The New York Times describes the immediate need for climate risk awareness and how it will affect all of us, especially impoverished countries.…
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Paul Krugman cites research from Perspectives
In today’s New York Times, columnist Paul Krugman cites political science research from a recently published article in Perspectives on Politics.…
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Party election campaigns matter, including for those on the extremist fringe
It is widely accepted that the manner in which a party campaigns at an election will shape its overall performance. Yet Matthew Goodwin observes that this has failed to translate into detailed research on party campaigning by parties on the radical and extremist fringe.…
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Average voter is unable to accurately assess politicians
A new study has thrown doubt on the ability of the average voter to make an accurate judgement of the performance of their politicians, showing that voter biases appear to be deep-seated and broad.…
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U.S. Public Supports Policies to Improve Nutritional Impact of Federal Nutrition Assistance Program
The December Nutrition Society Paper of the Month is from Public Health Nutrition and is entitled ‘Public support for policies to improve the nutritional impact of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)’.…
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100+ years of APSA research to join the CJO Digital Archive
More than a century’s worth of political science research and insight from the American Political Science Association (APSA) is being added to the Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) Digital Archive with the first additions of seminal political journals the American Political Science Review (APSR) and PS: Political Science and Politics (PS).…
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Perspectives on Politics Marks 10 Years Despite Canceled Conference
The 2012 American Political Science Association (APSA) Meeting & Exhibition, set to begin August 30, 2012 in New Orleans, was canceled as Hurricane Isaac made landfall in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.…
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The Heart of Anti-American Sentiment in Muslim Countries
The US struggle for hearts and minds in Muslim countries has been aiming at the wrong targets, a new study claims.…
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The impact of parasite infection on mental illness
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
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Cartographies of Movement
Inspired by the DSA conference call for papers “Cartographies of Movement,” this digital collection showcases Dance Research Journal articles that engage with kinesthetic and epistemological sites of indigeneity. The three subdivisions narrate the general movement of peoples and ideas at sites of origin, across countries, and beyond geographic or imagined borders. Each article in the “Rooted in Indigeneity'' section addresses performance as a means of grounding specific Indigenous cultural beliefs.
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Nothing-Burger? U.S. Obligation to Defend the Philippines in the South China Sea – Part 1
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
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Reflections on House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
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Good news, everyone: Women feel more attractive before ovulation
Evolution has shaped women’s ovulatory cycles to be characterised by complex recurring physiological processes of changing hormones and organ tissue. However, these changes often bring about unwanted aspects – be it premenstrual symptoms such as mood swings, feeling bloated or anxious, menstrual pain, or – still way too often – menstrual shame.…
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Record high sea surface temperatures: a rising threat to seabirds
Global sea surface temperatures are rising and have hit record high values in recent months. This potentially threatens seabirds, their prey and their habitats, both on land and at sea.
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What We Stay Alive For
Writing was refreshing to me because I was communicating again. However, I didn’t fully understand the extent until I watched Dead Poets Society, where the late Robin Williams delivered this moving monologue. He said, “We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
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Nothing-Burger? U.S. Obligation to Defend the Philippines in the South China Sea – Part 1
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
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The impact of parasite infection on mental illness
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
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Institutional Legacies and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Spending Decisions: The Case of the Freedmen’s Bureau
In 1996, then-President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) into law, with the goal to “end welfare as we know it.”…
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Experimenting with tablet-making
At the end of the Greek Bronze Age, between c.1400-1200 BCE, the Mycenaean palaces of Crete and mainland Greece used small clay tablets to keep their accounting documents.
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Reflections on House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
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Austerity and Young People’s Political Attitudes in the U.K.
In 2012, a Conservative-led coalition implemented austerity measures to restore the UK’s finances. The measures aimed to address the increase in public spending that had occurred during the Great Recession and included significant cuts to public services in the form of the 2012 Welfare Reform Act.…
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On time or with a delay? Transposition of EU directives in the Czech Republic in relation to subsidiarity check
National parliaments had been for long time losers of European integration with only very limited competences of information on new EU initiatives and of rubber-stamping transposition law compared to the national governments, which often negotiate EU law at the supranational level and propose its transposition acts at the national level.…
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